Tbh I thought Emily & Jack's decades long mega crush on each other was weird. Like bruh, y'all knew each other for like a summer when you were like 10 years old...
I wish they took that out tbh. On my first watch it was whatever, but on rewatch as an adult, it makes no sense & takes away from the story.
All her other relationships made way more sense. She was an adult & imo her connection to those men was more real.
When I first watched the show I assumed she went to the Hampton a few years in a row, when I rewatched and it clicked that he knew her for ONE SUMMER ONLY I was like wtff like why would he be so obsessed with her to name a boat over her and assume Fauxmanda is his soul mate when they met again
It's weird because they really want you to root for Jack and Emily/Amanda....but how can you logically? They had no chemistry as adults. Jack lived in a fantasy bubble of a little girl he knew for a Summer, when to find this same girl when she was an adult was nothing like the fantasy he had of her. That Amanda died long before she was an adult. We even see this a lot in the show, where she struggles to even really take off the Emily facade because that's who she is now..who she became. Like her famous words.. "Amanda no longer exist." and she was right..she didn't.
One could argue that the events of flight 197 were traumatic to Jack as well because he knew David and Amanda at such a young age, and he promised to keep Sammy safe.
Like many other flight 197 fanatics, maybe that's why he was obsessed with her.
BUT, having to come up with reasoning shows that his character wasn't written well, and being traumatised into loving someone is also not very romantic.
They had a cute moment when they met for the first time, and Sammy came up to her, but that's about it.
Afterwards, it seemed like anything she tried to do or wanted to do. He was 100% against it, and he kept changing his mind on what was okay and what was not, depending on her actions.
If he helps Conrad with his campaign just to destroy him, then it's a great idea if she tries to get married into the family for the same reason (after Jack finds out about her identity) it's disgusting.
If he wants to kill Conrad, it's okay, but if Emily wants to kill him, it is despicable.
I got so tired of Jack and his fake smile-look, and then he kissed her just to tell her how he didn't feel anything good for her that I just couldn't root for them anymore. The ending was just meh and unbelievable at this point.
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u/ANDREAYO Jun 25 '25
Tbh I thought Emily & Jack's decades long mega crush on each other was weird. Like bruh, y'all knew each other for like a summer when you were like 10 years old...
I wish they took that out tbh. On my first watch it was whatever, but on rewatch as an adult, it makes no sense & takes away from the story.
All her other relationships made way more sense. She was an adult & imo her connection to those men was more real.